Images of the Day

Selected by Deputy Picture Editor Laura Hutton

SPECIAL DELIVERY: An ice cream van being used to make essential deliveries to local people in need in the lower Oldpark and Shankill Road area of Belfast on Thursday. Photograph: Justin Kernoghan

MURAL: A man stops to photograph a new mural in Dublin by art group Subset which is inspired by, and representative of the information contained in a written piece on their website titled Coronavirus: The Virus Era. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

PRODUCTION: A worker wears a protective face mask as she makes scrubs for front-line National Health Service (NHS) staff in O'Neills sportswear factory in Strabane in Northern Ireland on March 26th. The company, which had laid off its workforce due to the coronavirus outbreak, has now brought staff back to make hospital scrubs for health workers in Northern Ireland. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP via Getty

DISTANCE: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan TD and John McGuinness TD observe social distancing protocols at Leinster House on Thursday. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/The Irish Times

WINDOW ART: Creations are beginning to appear, a result of all that fantastic home schooling by parents and their children. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

COMING HOME: Dr Zoe Lynch from Cabinteely arrives back in Dublin Airport from Perth, Australia. She travelled back with a large group of medics who are returning to Ireland to help with the Covid-19 healthcare effort. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/The Irish Times

BEACH: People spend time on a beach action this afternoon on the east coast. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

NO SHOWS: The Academy venue on Abbey Street, Dublin city which is closed due to coronavirus. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

EGYPT: Workers remove the wreckage of a car at the site of a road accident near the town of Al-Saff in Cairo's northern Giza province, some 40km north of the capital on Thursday which left several people killed and wounded. Photograph: Khaled Kamel/AFP via Getty

TEMPLE ATTACK: Afghan Hindu men grieve as they attend the burning ceremony of Sikh temple victims a day after an attack on a Sikh temple in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday. At least 25 people were killed and eight other injured after gunmen stormed a Sikh religious complex in the Afghan capital Kabul, according to officials. Photograph: Jawad Jalali/EPA

IN CIRCLES: People stand on designated areas to maintain social distancing as they queue outside a medical store during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against coronavirus, in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, on Thursday. Photograph: Farooq Khan/EPA

REOPENED WALL: Tourists wearing protective face masks walk at an almost empty Badaling Great Wall, in Beijing, China on March 26th. China has reopened Badaling section, one of the most popular tourists section of The Great Wall which was closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. While the new cases of Covid-19 in China has plummeted, the disease now is spreading dramatically around the world. It has so far killed more than 22,000 people worldwide. Photograph: Roaman Pilipey/EPA

IN BLOOM: A woman wearing a face mask enjoys cherry blossom season in Tokyo, Japan on Thursday. Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike has requested that citizens refrain from going outside this weekend for nonessential reasons after 41 cases of coronavirus infections were confirmed on Wednesday, pushing the total infections to over 1300. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty

BALCONY WORK OUT: Residents exercise on their balconies according to the instructions of fitness trainer Patricio Cervantes during the spread of coronavirus disease in Hamburg, Germany on Thursday. Photograph: Fabian Bimmer/Reuters

ORCHARD HEATERS: A photo taken with a drone shows heaters being placed between apricot trees in blossom as the sun rises in the middle of the Swiss Alps mountains, in Charrat, Canton of Valais, Switzerland on March 26th. Heaters are installed in the orchards of fruit trees to protect them from freezing when the temperatures drops bellow zero on cold spring nights. Photograph: Laurent Gillieron/EPA